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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

the force of the Enemy then God ariseth Q. But after what manner or by what means will God convert the twelve Tribes A. The Holy Ghost tells us Esay 49. 21 22 23. the whole chapter is a description of the glorious Gospel-day when Christ shall deliver both Jews and Gentiles from the Devils bondage and Antichrists yoak in v. 6. there 's Christs Commission to raise up the Tribes of Jacob God hath appointed him for that end that he may call the scattered Tribes from the North and from the west from the land of Sinim but the Jew shall say in his heart Who hath begotten me these seeing I am barren and desolate a captive and a wanderer to and fro and who hath nourished them Behold I was left alone whence are these This is the question that the Jews ask at the time of their beginning to be converted and brought from the North and from the West and from the Land of Sinim But observe the Answer the Holy Ghost gives v. 22. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my standart to the people and they shall bring thy sons in their armes and thy daughters shall be carryed on their shoulders The meaning is God will command the converted Gentiles the Ministers of the Gentile Church and they shall hold out the white flag of the Gospel of reconciliation by Jesus Christ for that 's Christs Standart and this shall be the way of their conversion but that 's not all for in the next verse v. 23. and Kings shall be thy nursing Father and Queens shall be thy Nurses converted Gentile-Kings shall invite the Jews into their Kingdome and give them leave fairly to bring in their scruples they have against Christ and appoint men to satisfie their doubts give them leave which the Pope will not do to read the New Testament and compare Christians principles with the ir principles For so the Prophet saith They shall be converted they shall see eye to eye that is by the Eye of the Old Testament they shall see into the New and by the Eye of the New they shall see into the Old Testament-prophecies fulfilled so that the godly Magistracy those are Kings and the goldy Ministery amongst the Gentiles shall be instruments of converting the Jews Hereupon my hopes and grounds are that God will by affliction so mould and frame the heart of the King of Scotland and then raise him to so great a power as that he will not only be the great instrument of throwing down Antichrist but also a great instrument in converting of the Jews in the West-Indies and East-Indies where the people thirst abundantly after the Word but there are few to deal the bread of life to them I have great hopes that God will yet again by an English Monarch do mighty things against Rome-Antichristian and for the propagating of the Gospel and my reasons are Because God chose the first Monarch in the world to be a Christian and a Defender of the Faith in this Kingdom Lucius was King of England and he that God chose to make the Vicar as Elutherius Bishop of Rome styled him this was Anno Christi 180. Abou 120 years after God raised up out of this Kingdom a Christian Emperour Constantine who was the Son of Hellena that beautiful Brittish Princess This Constantine God made the great Instrument of throwing down the Heathen Emperours turning the whole Empire from Paganism to Christianity He freed the Christians from their prisons and saved them from being any more tortured for Christ Since that time Religion was never quite extinguished but the Brittish people notwithstanding their afflictions kept their Religion amongst them after Rome apostatized from its primitive purity so far as from Rome-Christian to become Rome-Antichristian We shall find in History that the English Monarchs were the first that opposed the Popes Tyranny William the Conquerour was one that shewed himself an Enemy to the Popes pomp and tyranny and usurpation It may truly be said that the Normans despised and abhorred the Popes wicked usurpation The Plantaginets curbed the Pope's insolency The Tudars likewise unhorsed the Popes Observe here how the Tudars came in Henry 7. married Elisabeth the eldest daughter of Edward 4. and hereby unites the two Houses of York and Lancaster In the person of this King saith Sir Robert Naunton in his book called Fragmenta Regalia the royall scepter fell back into the current of the old British bloud which by the invasion of the Saxons and afterwards by the conquest of the Normans had discontinued almost a thousand years so that all the German Norman Burgundian Castalian and French atchievements with the intermarriages which eight hundred yeares had acquired and incorporated were all brought back into the old royall line of the ancient British Christian Kings This being so which I verily believe as 't is one of the remarkablest passages in the world so 't is that which makes exceedingly for my purpose viz. That the Kings of England are the lawfull Magistracy of England and that they are no usurpers and therfore one of the Witnesses This Henry 7. married his eldest daughter Margaret to the King of Scots The Tudars expiring in Q. Elizabeth the off-spring of Margaret who was matched into the royall Family of the Stuarts succeeded Q. Elizabeth in the English throne by a title cleer and unquestionable Now as the Tudars unhorsed and banished the Pope so the Stuarts stabbed the Pope so that as England had the first King that subjected this Kingdom to Christ and the first Emperor that subjected the Roman Empire to Christ and the first Kings that opposed Antichrist And as King Iames was the first that proved the Pope to be Antichrist so his son was the first King that ever was openly put to death for finishing his testimony against Antichrist Hence it appeares that as Monarchy before Christ was visible in the Church from Adam untill Christ so it hath been visible in this Kingdom since Christ from Lucius in a Christian line of unquestionable succession unto this distressed King of Scotland now persecuted by Antichrist This King was begot by a Protestant King baptized by a Protestant Mininister a Bishop he was born the heire of three Protestant Kingdoms and is the successor of a Martyr who laid down his life for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and this King hath covenanted to maintain the Protestant Religion all which could never be said of any King before and therfore my hope and trust is that King Iames his Grandchild shall be the King that shall throw down Rome Antichristian and be the great Instrument of making both Jews and Gentiles bow down to a reall reformation especially when in all probability these three Kingdoms are the Kingdoms where the Witnesses shall be slain by the usurpation of a mean fellow who shall arise and set up a new government and take upon him to be

they are that shall be converted and by whom they shall be converted This I have handled more at large in the other little Tract called Lingua Testium which ought to be joyned to this and was so intended though the winds and storms of persecution severed them My hearty prayer to God is that this clay and spettle may by the powerful operation of Gods spirit be effectual to the opening the eyes of those blind soules who by the blind are led out of the way and both fallen into the ditch What I have done is but as a Rams horn in a weak mans hand which one stone in probability from Jericho walls is able to dash in pieces yet what cannot a rams horn do when God sends it forth by his commission it is able to overthrow the strong walls of Jericho In God alone I put my trust he is my strength by his help have I leaped over the wall of many difficulties by his power I trust I shall undermine and blow up the wall of Babylon I am sure it stands though formidable to the beholder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon a tottering foundation and blessed are those Princes and blessed those people and persons whom God hath given a heart to enterprise so great a work though they die in that service Rev. 14. 13. My prayer is that this Tract may be as that voice in Jerusalem before its ruine A voyce to the Magistrate and a voice to the Minister a voice to the Papist and a voice to the Protestant a voice to the aged and a voice to the young a voice to the rich and a voice to the poor and a voice to all that belong to the Election of grace to forewarn them to fly from the evil to come for be assured O ye people of England that God will visit you and that speedily with his sore and heavie judgments as you have been singular in sin so will God single you out to punishment the day is at hand when Traytors and Covenant-breakers shall cry to the Mountains to fall upon them and to the hills to cover them from the wrath of God which will inevitably fall upon them Now that I might call some souls out from amongst them before the wrath of God break in upon them and it be too late I have written this ensuing Tract with as much plainnesse and brevity as I could I have pared off all difficulties which might perplex the Reader either in the method or in the style I have given thee here the cream of many a moneths study which I have gathered out of the choicest books in Europe I have left no stone unturned nor any Library in England that I could come at unransackt I expect no bribes of breath or profit but the profit of mine and thy soul which is the soul of profit as to other profit I am a stranger indeed I am a great looser for I have consumed both my body and estate to inrich my soul and others in this study nothing but my bed and my meals have been tedious to me since I undertook it and if the Lord be pleased to prosper it to the good but of any one soul I shall dedicate my whole life in praises to him and account my corporall losses a thousand times repaid me For this end I beseech thee Reader to read it as I writ it Sequestrate thy self from distractions and sit down as in the presence of God to search after his revealed Will in these misterious texts Watch against the Devils temptations for he is most busie about a man when he sits to meditate on these texts He shall never profit by this that doth not as that Father saith on the Cant. Carnalem exuere affectum he that comes to this treasury with smutcht and coalie heart and hands shall carry away pro thesauro carbones If thou therefore find not that expected satisfaction at the first reading of this book lay not the fault like Senecas Nurse presently upon the book but see that it be not thy fault in reading it I give thee this the rather because I know it will have many Censurers but I am confident few confuters remember good reader as thou must answer one day for thy lost hours which are double loss and as for thy sluggish hearing and praying so for thy sluggish and unprofitable reading of books The Lord therefore for Jesus sake grant that thou mayst so read as to understand that therein thou mayst be blessed which is the onely end of the Authors labours Vale. THe earnest endeavour of Dr. Homes on October the 8. 1650. was to perswade the Lord Major Aldermen and the chief of the City assembled at Christ-Church that now this year 1650. the things done against the lawful Parliament of England together with the grand defeat given to the Scots by Cromwell was the fulfilling litterally of his Text in Psal 149. 8. 9. To bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in fetters of Iron that they may execute upon them the vengeance written this Honour have all his Saints the honour of imprisoning arraigning condemning and beheading the only Protestant King in the world of dis●●bing the Protestant Peers of the Parliament of England and of secluding the sincere Protestants of the Commons of England the changing of the Government of England the removing of the Covenanted Reformation and the invading of Scotland and overthrowing of the covenanting party such honour have all the Saints saith Dr. Homes this is saith he page 6. remotio impedimenti the removing of impediments and the holy ones that is the present power now sitting at Westminster which he calls a Parliament have removed these impediments the Dr. gives a Catalogue of his Saints viz. the Parliame●● the Councel of State the Army the Magistrates the Ministers and the Churches these are the Doctors holy ones I wonder how the Dr. left out the King of Spain the p●incipal Saint next to the Pope in these honourable actions they doubtless have according to the Doctors interpretation endeavoured long before now in 88. and the Gun-powder-plot to fulfil the Doctors Text literally that is to overthrow King Lords and Commons and all that stand stedfastly to maintain Protestant Laws and Religion these are the things done and these are the persons who perform them the actions saith the Dr. are glorious and the actors holy ones neither is this any new notion of the Doctors for he professeth that 8. years agoe he was of this opinion that this year 1650. should produce such glorious effects as the beheading of King Charles upon a Scaffold at his own door for so the m●n means plainly by his expressions Is it not strange that this Dr. should be so old a Prophet nay is it not strange that he should be so soon a Prophet and so strange a Prophet for in the year 1642. the Dr. as he saith foretold these things to come to passe this year and in 1639. thousands